How to get a viewer's IP address with python?

Question

Just doing a basic forum with a python file allowing the user to login and/or create an account. Thought I would do a little bit more and have each user logged in with thei

Answer 1

I think this might work

from socket import gethostname, gethostbyname 
ip = gethostbyname(gethostname()) 

or If you are using CGI you can get it from the REMOTE_ADDR environmental variable